VogiDo you need an LinkedIn to get a job in 2026?
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1873477/do-you-need-an-linkedin-to-get-a-job-in-2026
abbadon420Not nescessary, but formed in an application form yesterday that just asked for name, cv and linkedin. No motivation or anything. I don’t have much hope for that particular application, but it shows that it is a part of the general application process in some places.
For applications that have a required a LinkedIn url field, most of the time they will accept just “https://www.linkedin.com/“ as a valid url. I have never had a LinkedIn profile and have been called for an interview after doing that. Maybe it’s a standard template for some job application forms and/or the employer doesn’t care about it too much.
It’s the beginning of the url to any real LinkedIn profile, which I guess is all the application form validates for. It wouldn’t allow me to submit the application when I tried to enter a written explanation that I don’t use LinkedIn.